Seventy years of great changes in the new era shoulder heavy responsibilities

After two years of "moving forward in the wandering", marked by the victory of the Third Plenary Session of the eleventh Central Committee of the Party in December 1978, China's printing industry, together with all walks of life in the country, began to enter a new period of reform and opening up.

Third, new systems and new thinking to promote new development

(1978-1999)

Shortly after the reform and opening up, in the early 1980s, the development plan of printing technology and equipment was first included in the national development plan. In 1982, the Central Government made it clear that under the leadership of The State Council, the National Economic Commission took the lead in solving the problem of backward printing technology. In July of the same year, Zhang Jinfu, director of the State Economic Commission, presided over a meeting on the topic of "Revitalizing China's printing industry and changing the backward face". In August of the same year, the State Economic Commission decided to set up a coordination group for technical transformation of the printing industry, chaired by the Machinery Industry Adjustment Office of the State Economic Commission, and jointly formed a coordination group with relevant personnel from machinery, electronics, light industry, chemical industry, the State Publishing Administration (later transformed into the Press and Publication Administration), the Publishing Bureau of the Central Publicity Department, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the State Planning Commission. With Fan Muhan and Lu Bing as principal and deputy leaders, they are responsible for planning, implementing and coordinating the technical transformation among various departments.

At the same time, the first cross-departmental and whole-industry chain printing association was established, and the printing industry took the first step in industry management. On December 12, 1984, the Secretariat of the Central Committee and The State Council listened to the report of the printing technology and equipment coordination Group to the United States and Japan, Deng Liqun and Zhang Jinfu pointed out at the meeting that strengthening the horizontal connection and industry management between printing and equipment processes can take the form of establishing an association. In December 1985, with the approval of the State Economic Commission, China Printing and Equipment Industry Association was formally established, and elected Zhou Peiyuan, a famous scientist and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, as honorary president, and Fan Muhan, leader of the printing Technical equipment coordination Group of the State Economic Commission, as president. The establishment of China Printing and Equipment Industry Association is the first step of China's printing industry to industry management, marking the development of China's printing and equipment industry has entered a new stage.

The coordination group and the industry association jointly operate, on the one hand, grasp the breakthrough of key projects, and grasp the promotion of technological transformation of the industry. The 16-word development policy of "laser phototypesetting, electronic color separation, offset printing, binding linkage" was put forward, and various departments were organized to study and formulate the "65th" and "75th" development plan for China's printing technology and equipment. This is an initiative and practice to promote the development of the industry in the early stage of reform and opening up, from the planned economy to the market economy.

In 1982, the State Economic Commission decided to establish a printing technical equipment coordination group headed by Fan Muhan (first from the left)

On December 2, 1987, the Economic Daily computer laser phototypesetting system project officially passed the identification of the National Appraisal Committee and the acceptance of the National Acceptance Committee, announcing the birth of the world's first Chinese daily newspaper using computer laser screen group and full-page output. In 1995, more than 1,500 newspapers across the country adopted laser phototypesetting systems. In the mid-1990s, China's key book printing plants all adopted domestic laser phototypesetting systems, and China's printing industry entered the era of "light and electricity".

Through the joint operation of the coordination group and industry associations, the printing industry has experienced a revolution since the founding of New China. A round of technological transformation with the largest scale (261 technical transformation projects have been established), the most extensive scope (involving more than 200 printing and printing equipment backbone enterprises), the largest investment (total investment of 2.792 billion yuan) and the longest duration (after the "Sixth Five-Year Plan" to "ninth Five-Year Plan" four Five-Year plan), the production capacity and technical level of the printing and equipment industry have been greatly improved. It laid the foundation for the rapid development of the industry later.